Facial recognition technology can help Brits order an estimated 78 million more pints of beer per year, and the scary includes train commuters and workers being tracked using facial recognition at a major London train station without them knowing it.

“We don’t expect to see a recovery in 2019, we see it as a 2020 event. We expect to see NAND (flash memory chips) first then followed by DRAM,” Chief Executive Officer Gary Dickerson said on a post-earnings call with analysts.

Falling chip prices dragged down the industry's total output value during the quarter, said DRAMeXchange. The industry posted US$14.84 billion in output value during the second quarter, down 9.1% from US$16.33 billion in the prior quarter.

Regarding the supply chain, a small amount of emergency materials have been affected. Hong Kong is one of the world's largest free trade port cities and an important gateway for economic and trade exchanges between the Chinese mainland and the world. As an important channel for international air logistics, Hong Kong Airport is strategically irreplaceable.

Figures summarized by “Electronics Supply and Manufacturing-China” magazine suggest that 38 out of the 124 billionaires are in the semiconductor industry. With 23 millionaires, Raytron outruns the remaining companies in terms of newly-minted millionaires.

This is the second attempt by AMS to acquire Osram this year. It ended its first attempt to buy Osram in July saying it didn’t see "sufficient basis" to proceed with its offer. Over the weekend, however, AMS decided to revive its bid. If successful, the combined company would have a broad portfolio of sensor solutions and photonics with approximately €5 billion of revenue.

McLaughlin is the former chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks. Henderson, the former chief financial officer of Cardinal Health, will remain on the Qualcomm board and continue to chair its audit committee.

5G-enabled phones will require wafer-level backend services. Suppliers capable of providing wafer-level backend services will find their role more important than that of module assemblers when making 5G devices, according to industry sources.

El Capitan will have a peak performance of more than 1.5 exaflops when it is commissioned in 2023. The estimated 30 MW system will use a combination of processors and accelerators to be chosen closer to its time of assembly.

The Samsung ISOCELL Bright HMX, which was designed in collaboration with Xiaomi, is a 108-megapixel smartphone camera sensor that Samsung says is the first to surpass the 100 million pixel milestone for phones. As well as producing high resolution photographs, the sensor can also shoot in 6K video (6016 x 3384) at 30 fps.

The new building, valued at NTY$2.326 billion (US$74.67 million) and located adjacent to its major manufacturing complex in Nanzih Export Processing Zone, will help ASE optimize its capacity allocation to strengthen the firm's overall development.

Memory industry is expected to see a brighter prospect starting 2020 when 5G services kick off commercial runs driving the popularity of 5G terminal devices that will in turn generate strong growth for memory products, according to industry sources.

Some major clients have been cautious about placing orders despite the arrival of the peak season. The silicon wafer manufacturer also disclosed revenues fell 12.6% sequentially to a 17-month low of NT$4.48 billion (US$142.8 million) in July 2019.

The latest HBM2E boasts 50 percent higher bandwidth and performance. It supports over 460 gigabytes of data per second based on 3.6 gigabits-per-second speed performance per pin with 1,024 data inputs and outputs.

The Japan government has put restrictions on the export of photoresist to Korea as part of its trade war. It is thought that, because the Belgian facility has existed for sometime, it is not subject to Japan’s export restrictions.

he deal has all the hallmarks of Tan’s past acquisitions. A mature but troubled company is acquired. Its sales force, expenses and R&D budgets are significantly cut to focus on a few core products sold often at lower prices to undercut rivals.

At the effective date of the transaction, each share of LSC stock will be converted into the right to receive NT$42.50 in cash, or US$1.37, as of June 30, 2019 without interest. The aggregate consideration will be approximately US$428 million. The price per share reflects a premium of 35% over LSC's 30-day volume-weighted average price.

Samsung Electronics on Friday announced its commercial production of the PM1733 PCIe Gen4 Solid State Drive (SSD) and high density RDIMM1 and LRDIMM2 dynamic random access memory (DRAM) for the AMD’s EPYC 7002 Gen 2 processors and new servers.

When completed, it said the acquisition will broaden Synopsys' automotive product portfolio for automotive Tier 1 and OEM companies and add a team of highly experienced engineers to accelerate technology development and customer deployment.

Of the first 25 companies listed, computer, communications and electronic equipment manufacturers held the lion’s share. They include eight specialty equipment makers covering chip, semiconductor, optical simulation, IoT and smart manufacturing. Six in the group are chip and semiconductor-related companies.